October 2011

Natural Disasters Bencana Alam A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the south- Gempa berkekuatan 6.8 terjadi di lepas pantai barat west coast of Bali Island on 13 October. It was felt Pulau Bali pada 13 Oktober. Getaran sangat dirasakan most intensely in the Denpasar area as well as in di daerah Denpasar serta di beberapa daerah lain di several other areas in Bali, East Java and Lombok. No Bali, Jawa Timur dan Lombok. Tidak ada korban jiwa fatalities were recorded, although about 90 injuries tercatat, meskipun sekitar 90 orang dilaporkan were reported. A number of buildings including cedera. Sejumlah bangunan termasuk rumah, rumah houses, hospitals, schools and temples, were damaged sakit, sekolah dan kuil-kuil rusak di daerah Denpasar, in Denpasar, Gianyar, Bangli, Badung, and Jembrana Gianyar , Bangli, Badung, dan Kabupaten Jembrana. Districts. The district government, with support from Pemerintah kabupaten, dengan dukungan dari provincial government and Indonesian Red Cross pemerintah provinsi dan Palang Merah Indonesia telah have responded to the emergency situation. Nineteen merespon situasi darurat. 19 gempa bumi berskala 5.0 earthquakes measuring 5.0 or above on Richter scale atau lebih terjadi di Indonesia selama bulan Oktober. (RS) occured across the country during October.

Several volcanoes increased their activities during Beberapa gunung berapi meningkat aktivitasnya October. Mount Marapi in West Sumatra erupted, selama bulan Oktober. Gunung Marapi di Sumatra spewing dark clouds up to 2,891 metres high. The Barat meletus, memuntahkan awan panas sampai Centre of Volcanology and Geological hazard dengan ketinggian 2,891 meter. Pusat Mitigasi Mitigation (PVMBG) raised the alert status of the Ancaman Vulkanologi dan Geologi menaikkan status volcano to level 2 (caution). Mount Lokon in North gunung tersebut ke level 2 (waspada). Gunung Lokon Sulawesi also erupted and spewed smoke up to 1,200 di Sulawesi Utara juga meletus dan melontarkan awan metres into the sky on 26 October. Increased sampai ketinggian 1200 meter pada 26 Oktober. activities were also recorded at Mount Anak Meningkatnya aktivitas juga terjadi pada Gunung Anak Krakatau in Sunda Strait and Mount Papandayan in Krakatau di selat Sunda dan Gunung Papandayan di West Java. Their alert status however remained at Jawa Barat. Namun status siaga mereka tetap pada level 3 (warning) 3. On the contrary, Mount Anak level 3 (siaga). Sebaliknya, Anak Gunung Ranakah di Ranakah in East Nusa Tenggara decreased its volcanic Nusa Tenggara Timur mengalami penurunan aktivitas activity and PVMBG lowered the level of alert from 3 dan PVMBG menurunkan tingkat peringatan dari level to level 2. Currently there are 4 volcanoes at alert 3 ke 2. Saat ini ada empat gurungapi berada pada level level 3, including Papandayan, Karangetang, Lokon, 3 termasuk Papandayan, Karangetang, dan Anak and Anak Krakatau, and sixteen volcanoes at alert Krakatau serta 16 gunungapi pada level 2. level 2.

The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Badan Metereologi dan Geofisika melaporkan bahwa reported that most parts of the country entered the sebagian besar wilayah Indonesia memasuki musim rainy season in October, including Sumatra, Java, hujan di bulan Oktober, termasuk Sumatra, Jawa, Kalimantan and Sulawesi, and the rest of the country Kalimantan dan Sulawesi, dan sebagian daerah akan will enter the rainy season in November. The peak of memasuki musim hujan pada bulan November. the rains is expected in January or February 2012.. Puncak curah hujan diperkirakan akan terjadi di bulan During the month, heavy rains triggered floods and Januari atau Februari 2012. Selama bulan Oktober landslides in several areas of the country causing hujan deras menyebabkan banjir dan tanah longsor di damages to properties and losses to lives. The worst beberapa area serta kerusakan harta benda dan flooding occured in Donggala District, Central kehilangan nyawa. Banjir terburuk terjadi di Sulawesi on 17 October, killing three people. Kabupaten Donggala, Sulawesi Tengah pada tanggal 17 Oktober, menewaskan tiga orang.

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Monthly Humanitarian Update October 2011

Seven villages were inundated by the flood, two Tujuh desa terendam oleh banjir, dua jembatan bridges were swept away, and around 500 houses hanyut, dan 500 rumah mengalami kerusakan. were damaged. The district government has Pemerintah kabupaten telah merespon situasi responded to the emergency situation. Flooding in darurat. Banjir di Garut, Jawa Barat telah menewaskan Garut, West Java killed one person and injured five satu orang dan lima orang lainnya terluka. Di Nagan others. In Nagan Raya, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Raya, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam, hujan deras heavy rain flooded 11 villages in the area. Further, menyebabkan banjir di sebelas desa di area tersebut. flooding in Pondok Labu, South Jakarta on 30 Lebih lanjut, banjir di Pondok Labu, Jakarta Utara October inundated houses and forced hundreds of pada 30 Oktober membuat banyak rumah tergenang families to take refuge on higher grounds. President dan ratusan keluarga terpaksa mengungsi ke daerah of Indonesia asked the governor to address the flood yang lebih tinggi. Presiden Indonesia telah meminta problem in the city and to prevent the floods from Gubernur untuk mengatasi masalah banjir di kota dan spreading to wider areas. Jakarta governor announced untuk mencegah agar banjir tidak menyebar luas ke plans to build a new dam in the area next year to daerah lain. Gubernur Jakarta mengumumkan rencana overcome a chronic flood problem in Pondok Labu mebangun bendungan baru di daerah tersebut tahun and its surrounding areas. depan untuk mengatasi masalah banjir yang kronis di Pondok Labu dan sekitarnya.

Heavy rains also caused landslides in several areas in Hujan deras juga menyebabkan tanah longsor di East Java including Magetan, Surabaya, and West beberapa daerah di Jawa Timur termasuk Magetan, Bangka Districts. Landslides occurred in Magetan Surabaya dan Kabupaten Bangka Barat. Tanah longsor killed four people and injured another two. According terjadi di Magetan dan menewaskan empat orang to local BPBD, forty one villages in 11 sub districts of serta melukai 2 orang lainnya. Menurut BPBD Lebak District of Banten are at danger from the setempat , 41 desa di 11 kecamatan di Kabupaten future potential landslides. Furthermore, whirlwinds Banten berada dalam bahaya serta berpotensi caused damages to houses in several districts in terjadinya tanah longsor ke depannya. Selain itu, angin Central, West and East Java, North and Southeast puyuh menyebabkan kerusakan rumah-rumah di Sulawesi, and Kalimantan. No casualties were beberapa kabupaten di Jawa Tengah, Jawa Barat dan reported due to the whirlwinds. Jawa Timur, Sulawesi Utara dan Sulawesi Tenggara, dan Kalimantan. Tidak ada kerusakan yang dilaporkan akibat angin puyuh tersebut.

With heavy rains communities living near rivers on Akibat curah hujan yang tinggi komunitas yang tinggal the slopes of Mount Merapi are at risk of cold lava dekat sungai di lereng Gunung Merapi berisiko floods. Pabelan River overflowed and swept 2 menghadapi banjir lahar dingin. Sungai Pabelan bridges in Magelang District, Central Java following meluap dan menghanyutkan dua jembatan di heavy rain on 23 October. No casualties were Kabupaten Magelang, Jawa Tengah yang diikuti dengan reported. National and provincial agencies for hujan deras pada 23 Oktober 2011. Tidak ada disaster management (BNPB/BPBD) are currently kerusakan yang dilaporkan. BNPB/BPBD saat ini developing a contingency plan and early warning sedang mengembangkan rencana kontingensi dan system for the cold lava flood. Government on the system peringatan dini untuk banjir lava dingin. Di sisi other hand has finalized the action plan for lain pemerintah memfinalisasi rencana aksi untuk rehabilitation and reconstruction of areas affected by rehabilitasi dan rekonstruksi di daerah yang terkena the cold lava following the last year’s eruption of lava dingin akibat letusan Gunung Merapi tahun lalu. Mount Merapi. The action plan also includes Rencana aksi juga memuat kesiapsiagaan tanggap emergency preparedness for a possible cold lava darurat terhadap kemungkinan banjir lava dingin flood during the rainy season. selama musim hujan.

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Monthly Humanitarian Update October 2011

Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Kesiapsiagaan Bencana dan Pengurangan (DRR) Resiko (PRB) Mt. Merapi and Mentawai Islands disasters Rencana Kontinjensi Antar Lembaga atas bencana necessitated a review of the inter-Agency Gunung Merapi dan Kepulauan Mentawai Contingency Plan, in particular scenarios, response memerlukan review dari inter – Agency Contingency capacities of clusters and government counterparts Plan, pada skenario tertentu, kapasitas respon cluster and level of preparedness. The CP focuses on key dan mitra pemerintah serta tingkat kesiapsiagaan. relationships, coordination mechanisms, standard Rencana kontingensi memfokuskan pada hubungan operating procedures, roles and responsibilities, kunci, mekanisme koordinasi, dan prosedur operasi information gathering and sharing, and preparedness standar, peran dan tanggung jawab, pengumpulan dan actions. A new scenario was introduced with in- penyebarluasan informasi, serta aksi kesiapsiagaan. country international assistance welcomed by the Skenario baru bantuan internasional di dalam negeri government. The updated CP is a product of yang telah dikenalkan disambut baik oleh pemerintah. extensive consultations with the humanitarian Rencana Kontingensi terkini (CP) adalah sebuah hasil community, including Cluster Leads, government konsultasi yang ekstensif dengan komunitas counterparts, NGOs, and Humanitarian Country kemanusiaan, termasuk pimpinan cluster (Cluster Team. The objective of this CP is to contribute to Leads), mitra pemerintah, LSM, dan Humanitarian strengthening emergency response systems by Country Team (HCT – Tim Kemanusiaan Negara). improving preparedness and working closely with the Tujuan dari Rencana Kontingensi ini adalah untuk government. The challenge is to maintain an memberikan kontribusi untuk memperkuat sistem appropriate level of preparedness over time. respon darurat dengan meningkatkan kesiapsiagaan Consequently, a comprehensive cluster preparedness dan bekerja erat bersama pemerintah. Tantangannya plan will be developed, which after HCT adalah untuk mempertahankan tingkat kesiapsiagaan endorsement will be presented, in conjuction with yang sesuai dari waktu ke waktu. Oleh karena itu, BNPB, to donors with funding requests. rencana yang komprehensif mengenai kesiapan klaster akan dikembangkan, setelah mendapat persetujuan dari HCT dan disampaikan kepada donor bersama BNPB untuk mobilsasi dana dalam kaitannya dengan BNPB, donor dan permintaan dana.

The International Day for Disaster Reduction is Hari Internasional untuk Pengurangan Bencana marked annually on 13 October to celebrate and ditandai setiap tahun pada tanggal 13 Oktober untuk raise awareness about importance of reducing risks merayakan dan meningkatkan kesadaran tentang posed by natural disasters. This year the observance pentingnya pengurangan risiko yang ditimbulkan oleh of the day took place within the framework of the bencana alam. Tahun ini perayaan tersebut mengambil ‘Step up for Disaster Risk Reduction’ campaign with tema “ Meningkatkan Pengurangan Resiko Bencana” the focus on engaging children and young people in dengan focus pada anak-anak dan orang muda dalam disaster risk reduction as the group most affected by pengurangan resiko bencana sebagai kelompok yang disasters each year. October is commemorated as paling terkena dampak bencana setiap tahunnya. the Disaster risk reduction month in Indonesia. On Oktober diperingati sebagai bulan Pengurangan the occasion various events were conducted such as Resiko Bencana di Indonesia. Pada kesempatan ini, workshops on accountability of humanitarian aid berbagai acara dilakukan seperti lokakarya kolaborasi management and the role of interfaith collaboration antar agama dalam bencana yang diselenggarakan oleh in disasters hosted by the Humanitarian Forum Forum Kemanusiaan Indonesia, dan lokakarya tentang Indonesia, and a workshop on food security in ketahanan pangan dalam keadaan darurat emergencies organised by the Indonesian Society for diselenggarakan oleh Masyarakat Penanggulangan Disaster Management. BNPB commemorated the Bencana Indonesia. BNPB memperingati bulan PRB DRR month by conducting various activities including dengan melakukan berbagai kegiatan termasuk diskusi discussions on risk mapping, and development of pada pemetaan resiko dan pengembangan pedoman guidelines on logistics monitoring and evaluation. tentang monitoring dan evaluasi logistik.

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As part of the campaign, DRR Forum Yogyakarta Sebagai bagian dari kampanye. Forum PRB Yogyakarta organized children’s story writing and story telling menyelenggarakan kompetesi menulis cerita anak- competition on DRR. BNPB closed the DRR month anak dan bercerita tentang PRB. BNPB menutup bulan on 31 October in Yogyakarta and announced the PRB pada tanggal 31 Oktober di Yogyakarta serta start of one-year preparations for the Asian mengumumkan dimulainya satu tahun persiapan untuk Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to Konferensi Menteri Asia untuk Pengurangan Resiko be held in the city in 2012. Bencana yang akan diadakan di Jakarta pada tahun 2012.

This report is prepared based on information Laporan ini disiapkan berdasarkan informasi dari provided by UN agencies, INGOs, the Meteorology, badan-badan PBB, LSM internasional, Badan Climatology and Geophysics Agency (Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG), Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika – BMKG), the Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB), National Disaster Management Agency (Badan Kementerian Kesehatan dan laporan media. Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana – BNPB), the Ministry of Health (MoH), and media reports.

Further Information Informasi lebih lanjut Ignacio Leon-Garcia, Chief of OCHA Indonesia Ignacio Leon-Garcia, Chief of OCHA Indonesia Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Nova Ratnanto, Emergency Response Officer Nova Ratnanto, Emergency Response Officer

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(October 2011) Indonesia Indonesia Humanitarian Snapshot

Nineteen earthquakes measuring 5.0 or above on Richter scale (RS) occured across the country during October

Currently there are 4 volcanoes with alert level III and 16 volcanoes with alert level II This snapshot is prepared based on information provided by UN agencies, INGOs, ASEAN, the The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported that most parts of the country entered the rainy season in October, including Sumatra, Java, Kali- Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geo sika mantan and Sulawesi, and the rest of the country will enter the rainy season in November BMKG), the National Disaster Management Agency (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana BNPB), The peak of the rains is expected in January or February 2012 the Ministry of Health (MoH), and media reports.

! ! ! NAGAN RAYA "/ ! Karangetang! [Api Siau] ! ! Legend: !! #0 ! Lokon . Point of District/City #0 ! Mountain ! . Marapi Earthquake Point (October) ! ! ! #0 DONGGALA Earthquake Point (September) "/ WEST BANGKA Earthquake Point (August) "/ Frequency of Earthquakes (August to October) ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 22 ! ! !! 19 ! Krakatau ! SOUTH JAKARTA !!! #0 "/ ! 13 Papandayan !!! ! ! GARUT ! "/ MAGETAN ! #0 "/ "/ ! ! ! MAGELANG #0Ranakah ! ! !. ! ! ! ! ! 22 Number of earthquake occurrences

Mount Merapi Bali Mount Marapi Mount Lokon Donggala Garut Nagan Raya South Jakarta Magetan October 2011

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Mount Marapi in West Mount Lokon in North The worst ooding occured in Donggala In Nagan Raya, Nanggroe Landslides occurred in o the south-west coast of Bali Island Sumatra erupted, spewing Sulawesi also erupted and District, Central Sulawesi on 17 October, killing Aceh Darussalam, heavy Magetan killed four people on 13 October. It was felt most dark clouds up to 2,891 spewed smoke up to three people. Seven villages were inundated by rain ooded 11 villages in and injured another two intensely in the Denpasar area as well metres high. The Centre of 1,200 metres into the sky the ood, two bridges were swept away, and the area as in several other areas in Bali, East Volcanology and Geologi- on 26 October. around 500 houses were damaged. Java and Lombok. No fatalities were cal hazard Mitigation recorded, although about 90 injuries (PVMBG) raised the alert were reported. A number of buildings status of the volcano to Heavy rains communities living near rivers Flooding in Garut, West Java killed one person and injured Flooding in Pondok Labu, including houses, hospitals, schools level 2 (caution). on the slopes of Mount Merapi are at risk of ve others South Jakarta on 30 October and temples, were damaged in inundated houses and forced cold lava oods. Pabelan River overowed Denpasar, Gianyar, Bangli, Badung, hundreds of families to take and swept 2 bridges in Magelang District, and Jembrana Districts. refuge on higher grounds Central Java following heavy rain on 23 October

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